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Jeffrey H. Tigay (1982), The Evolution of the Gilgamesh Epic, University of Pennsylvania Press.

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Gilgamesh Flood

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Specialist study of the epic’s compositional development and the incorporation of the flood episode.

What this usage does not establish

Reconstructs literary development; it does not establish that the surviving Tablet XI was a line-by-line source for Genesis.
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V3F-0026

Eridu Genesis

Why Ancient Inquiry uses this citation here

Specialist comparative/compositional context for Mesopotamian flood traditions.

What this usage does not establish

Does not reduce the full transmission history to one linear chain.
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George Smith’s historical publication documents the modern Genesis comparison, but the listed sources do not establish that the surviving K.3375 copy was Genesis’s line-by-line source.

Genesis is meaningfully related to Mesopotamian flood literature, but the evidence does not identify the exact surviving Tablet XI copy as its direct line-by-line source.
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The claim that the Gilgamesh flood episode directly supplied Genesis is documented in the comparison tradition but is not established as a line-by-line dependence on the surviving tablet.

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The surviving Sumerian flood composition predates the final biblical form of Genesis, but the exact transmission route is unresolved.

Answer / theory: Yes, the surviving Mesopotamian flood tradition is older than the final biblical form of Genesis, but exact transmission is complex. What supports it: Sumerian and Akkadian flood materials predate the final biblical text in the surviving source record. What is weak or disputed: The exact pathway from Sumerian tradition to Akkadian versions and then to biblical tradition is not fully documented. Evidence level: Strong Evidence for older Mesopotamian flood tradition; Mixed Evidence for exact route.
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